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   From: lololol@divorces.com   
      
   Canada’s prim capital is suddenly focused more on the state of   
   people’s affairs than the affairs of the state.   
      
   One in five Ottawa residents allegedly subscribed to adulterers’   
   website Ashley Madison, making one of the world’s coldest   
   capitals among the hottest for extra-marital hookups – and the   
   most vulnerable to a breach of privacy after hackers targeted   
   the site.   
      
   Hackers threatened to leak details including the credit card   
   information, nude photos, sexual fantasies and real names of as   
   many as 37 million customers worldwide of Ashley Madison, which   
   uses the slogan: “Life is short. Have an affair.”   
      
   The website’s Canadian parent, Avid Life Media, said it had   
   since secured the site and was working with law enforcement   
   agencies to trace those behind the attack.   
      
   “Everybody says Ottawa is a sleepy town and here we are with   
   200,000 people running around on each other,” said municipal   
   employee Jon Weaks, 27, as he took a break at an outdoor cafe   
   near the nation’s Parliament.   
      
   “I think a lot of people will be questioned tonight at dinner,”   
   added colleague Ali Cross, 28.   
      
   Some 189,810 Ashley Madison users were registered in Ottawa, a   
   city with a population of about 883,000, making the capital No.   
   1 for philanderers in Canada and potentially the highest   
   globally per capita, according to previously published figures   
   from the Toronto-based company.   
      
   The one bright spot for millions of Ashley Madison’s nervous   
   clients is that the hack appears to be an inside job, according   
   to police and intelligence sources. Avid Life has also said it   
   is convinced the hackers were formerly connected to the company.   
      
   That means, for now at least, the perpetrators are driven by   
   ideological and not commercial motives.   
      
   The hackers, who referred to customers as “cheating dirtbags who   
   deserve no discretion,” appear uninterested in blackmailing   
   individual clients, unlike an organized crime outfit.   
      
   “If it had been organized, they wouldn’t have advertised it,”   
   said a law enforcement source who spoke on condition of   
   anonymity. “But there’s going to be a lot of people with lots of   
   explaining to do.”   
      
   The hotbed of infidelity was also the seat of power: The top   
   postal code for new members matched that of Parliament Hill,   
   according to Avid Live chief executive Noel Biderman in a   
   newspaper report published earlier this year.   
      
   Biderman said capital cities around the world typically top   
   subscription rates, a phenomenon he chalks up to “power, fame   
   and opportunity,” along with the risk-taking personalities that   
   find themselves in political cities.   
      
   The Ottawa mayor’s office and city council either declined to   
   comment or did not return emails.   
      
   The hackers want Avid Life to shut down the website, as well as   
   a second one it runs, EstablishedMen.com which is widely   
   described as a “sugar daddy site,” but has no issues with   
   CougarLife.com, a site for older women looking for hookups.   
      
   “In our buttoned-down city, it may not be acceptable to openly   
   explore outside of a committed relationship,” said Ottawa   
   marriage counselor Nataxja Cini.   
      
   In a city full of professionals with demanding careers, many in   
   government, Cini said marriage may come under more strain than   
   usual. But with a stable family life still a badge of success,   
   an Ashley Madison subscription may be preferable to divorce, she   
   said.   
      
   To be sure, the subscription data may not be that reliable.   
      
   A former employee sued Avid Life, saying she had developed   
   debilitating wrist pain, insomnia and anxiety while writing   
   1,000 fake profiles for a Brazilian version of Ashley Madison,   
   according to court records. The case was dismissed earlier this   
   year.   
      
   Still, one Ottawa resident, who declined to give her last name,   
   said it is unsurprising the small government town is home to so   
   many Ashley Madison clients.   
      
   “In a blue collar city, they’re not going to use a website,   
   they’re going to do it at a bar,” said Kary, 38. In Ottawa “you   
   can’t run the risk of someone seeing you at a bar doing that.”   
      
   The town is also not famed for its rollicking social scene.   
      
   “Why do you think everyone goes to Montreal to have a good   
   time?” she added. “Ottawa is the city fun forgot.”   
      
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